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She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT
Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
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He walked over to the table and mixed two tumblers of whiskey-and-soda, wondering why he had not thought of it before.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
He paused, then mixed and drank another whiskey-and-soda, lit a cigarette, and resumed.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
When the orange-and-red banner was actually replaced by the Stars and Stripes, many in the crowd shed tears.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
The exhaust-valve is exactly as when it was put in, worked by a rack-and-tooth segment.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICK
We had no more than got fairly between the straight-up-and-down walls of it than Piegan halted us with a warning hand.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
The steady use of the organ for an hour-and-a-half's choir rehearsal would exhaust the batteries.
THE RECENT REVOLUTION IN ORGAN BUILDINGGEORGE LAING MILLER
WORDS RELATED TO HEM AND HAW
- baffle
- be beyond someone
- beat around the bush
- bilk
- circumvent
- confound
- cop out
- ditch
- dodge
- double
- duck
- eschew
- evade
- flee
- fly
- foil
- frustrate
- get around
- get away from
- give the runaround
- give the slip
- give wide berth to
- hem and haw
- not touch
- outrun
- outwit
- pass the buck
- pass up
- puzzle
- run around
- shirk
- shuck
- shun
- shy
- stall
- stay shy of
- steer clear of
- stonewall
- stump
- thwart
- baffle
- be beyond someone
- beat around the bush
- bilk
- circumvent
- confound
- cop out
- ditch
- dodge
- double
- duck
- eschew
- evade
- flee
- fly
- foil
- frustrate
- get around
- get away from
- give the runaround
- give the slip
- give wide berth to
- hem and haw
- not touch
- outrun
- outwit
- pass the buck
- pass up
- puzzle
- run around
- shirk
- shuck
- shun
- shy
- stall
- stay shy of
- steer clear of
- stonewall
- stump
- thwart
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